Item #2331508 Madame Bovary (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 28). Gustave Flaubert, Eleanor Marx Aveling.

Madame Bovary (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 28)

New York: Boni & Liveright / The Modern Library, 1919. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good / No Jacket. Item #2331508

1919-25 printing of Toledano 028.1 (Aveling translation, no introduction), binding 2, Brodzky endpapers. Front hinge weakening, binding a bit shaken, spine creased and rubbed.

[vi], 273 pp. Brown flexible boards, gilt titles. "For daring to peer into the heart of an adulteress and enumerate its contents with profound dispassion, the author of Madame Bovary was tried for 'offenses against morality and religion.' What shocks us today about Flaubert's devastatingly realized tale of a young woman destroyed by the reckless pursuit of her romantic dreams is its pure artistry: the poise of its narrative structure, the opulence of its prose (marvelously captured in the English translation of Francis Steegmuller), and its creation of a world whose minor figures are as vital as its doomed heroine. In reading Madame Bovary, one experiences a work that remains genuinely revolutionary almost a century and a half after its creation."

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